Wovoka (Jack Wilson the Paiute Prophet)

During high fever during the eclipse of 1889, Wovoka was taken up to heaven, where the Creator revealed to him a paradise where ancestors and game lived joyfully. He was instructed to teach indigenous nations a sacred circle dance and a doctrine of strict peace and hard work.

His message spread across hundreds of tribes from the Rockies to the Great Plains, misconstrued by nervous military authorities that led to the tragic Wounded Knee massacre, while Wovoka continued living as a quiet healer in Nevada until his passing in 1932.